John Legend & the Roots: Wake Up!

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Modern take on the politically conscious soul of the 1960s and 1970s inspired by Barack Obama’s battle for the White House

Protest has rarely been as restrained or mellifluous as on this covers album
from the R’n’B singer and the hip-hop collective. A response to Barack
Obama’s battle for the White House, it tastefully revisits politically
conscious soul from the Sixties and Seventies. When they stiffen their
grooves with a glint of steel, as they do on Bill Withers’ I Can’t
Write Left Handed, the results are worthy of their illustrious
forebears.